The Road to Oxiana von Byron, Robert

Europe in the Looking Glass von Byron, Robert

Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Lenin had just died, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy...

Unübertroffen, the best travel book ever, der Ulysses der Reiseliteratur:mit solchen Superlativen der englischen Kritik brauchen wir uns nicht aufzuhalten. Wer weiß schon, wo Oxiana liegt? Diese Region ist nach dem mächtigen Grenzfluß...

"Der Weg nach Oxiana" von Robert Byron ist ein klassisches Reisebuch, das die abenteuerliche Expedition des Autors durch den Nahen Osten und Zentralasien in den Jahren 1933 und 1934 beschreibt. Byron, ein britischer Schriftsteller und...

This travel book was written in 1933-4 when the author travelled to Persia and Afghanistan. It is a record of his journeys, full of observation of people and places, and funny dialogue. The author, Robert Byron drowned in 1941 when his...

Robert Byron was born in 1905, and educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford. He died in 1941, during the Second World War, when the ship he was serving on was torpedoed by a U-Boat off Cape Wrath. Byron's The Road to Oxiana is...